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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
FILM CHATTER,
AMUSING STUDIES IN SCREEN SOPHISTICATION.
[By A. Atkinson. London Daily Telegraph Film Critic.]
London, Jan, 6.
really loves him, goes, abroad on a handsome allowance.
She goes to Paris. Not only does she go to Paris, but everyone takes it for granted that to Parla she will
go.
Rivieran dowager to separate the former husband from a too-suscep- tible maiden, an adventure which ends in the reconciliation of the divorced couple.
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The production is an сабу On the way to Paris she is triumph for Marie Dressler in the annexed by one of her husband's role of the formidable dowager, friends. who owns a magnificent The others, with the exception of chateau, in-which he instals her. one or two minor roles, fall short
After a round of the pleasure of conviction. resorts and beauty parlours, which add the word "chle" to the heroine's appeal, the philanderer takes her back to New York with the Inten- tion of divorcing and marrying her, but the husband now finds that he loves his former secretary, and all onds na it should do.
One of my readers is anxious that I should discuss "the best alm songs of 1930," and names her own favourite as "My Dream Lover." sung by Jeannette MacDonald in "The Love Parade." It is a charm- ing song. and the sentiment is devastating, but I think most people would agree that the best number
"Sin Takes a Holiday" fails be- In "The Love Parade" is the "Song of the Grenadiers," also from Miss cause the heroine is supposed to be MacDonald, who made a great sing but one has only to glance at Misa a plain girl, of commonplace appeal, ing reputation last year.
who Bennett and listen to her attractive thinks that the outstanding film voice to reject the supposition as songs of 1930 were "Tip-toe through the Tulips" and "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine," which adorned "Gold Diggera of Broad- way" These were catchy tunes, though none of the catchy tunes of 1930 has attained the popularity of "Happy Days are Here Again."
There is another
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The most attractive that I have heard is "Without a Song," out of "The Great Day," but as that film has not yet reached the public the song cannot be considered here..
American music publishers are able to exploit their songs in this country long before the relative films arrive.
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German Theme-Songs.
The critical test of a film song is its reшtion to the theme, of which it should be absolutely
part and parcel.
fonllah.
Much of the drama is in bad taste, and some of the dialogue is at least vulgar.
Sophistication is betrayed when
Miss Shearer's transformation is
ingenious, but her work lacks the vital spark. Rod La Rocque plays the role of the philandering hus band too heavily. Philanderers may be wicked, but they are rarely dull,
Much of the dialogue la clever, and the social settings are well contrived, in spite of a suspicion are missing. that here and there the nuances
Recommended.
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Comedy and Farce. Miss Dressler also appears with her famous cross-talk partner, Polly Moran, in "Caught Short," one of the best comedy releases of
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of a couple of middle-class Now York women during the stock mar- kot boom, and their subsequent FOR “SHIPMATES”—A TALKING humiliation when prices collapse,
Wiring the U.S. S. Colorado for
The story is merely an excuse for the personal duel between Miss Dressler and Miss Moran, two of the most consummately skilful sound, Harry Pollard has start- players that the screen has over od production on "Shipmates." known,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Navy ro- "Caught Short" is a masterpiece mance featuring Robert Montgo- of shrewd characterisation and mery and Dorothy Jordan. Montgo- democratie wit, not leas human than mery plays a "geb" and the story, humorous. Strongly recommended. an original by Lou Edelman and Delmar Daves, abounds with tradi- tions of the service.
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"Bed and Breakfast," on view at the Astoria, is the now Walter Forde production which had such the fog that made the opening of an unfortunate experience during
the Trocadero ДП unrehearsed
Clif Edwarda is the big comedy gun, and Ernest Torrence the Bosworth is the admiral; Gavla veteran Chief Petty Officer; Hobart
Gordan a dashing lieutenant; Ed- ward Nugent is "What-Ho" and This new British comedy exploits Joan Marsh is a companion to Misa a rather broad vein of humour Jordan. Others in the cast are based on the familiar theme of E. A. Warren and George Irving, matrimonial exchange.
drama.
The treatment occasionally lacks decorum, but the production does not pretend to be other than farcical.
Mr. Forde has an unfalling fund of "gaga," and he is well served by his cast, which includes Jane Baxter, a pretty and clever new- comer, Sari Maritza, Ruth Mait- land, an dthe experienced quartet, Richard Cooper, Frederick Volpe, The inimitable pair are featured Alf Goddard, and David How-
an actress, of obvious culture is the season.
made to speak such lines as: "There
is nothing the matter with me that in a story based on the social rise; thorne. calls for anything that's strung," but the "below stairs" use of "that" is always turning up in Hollywood talkies.
Not So Spanish.
"In Gay Madrid," one of the
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general released, presents Ramon Novarro in what looks like an at- tempt to plant the conventional American college story in Castilian soil. The director's ignorance of what can be conveniently called "old Spanish customs" does not Bout Sirloin disturb the cheerful spirit in which he uses them.
The critic's difficulty is that there is à beauty, charm, and dignity An excellent example of that about Spanish traditions that an-
was "The principle
Pagan Lovesorts with this drama of a col- Song," which fitted that rather lege boy who all but wrecks the mediocre film "The Pagan" so well aristocratic marriage reserved for that carried the production to him by getting into a scrape with success. There was no theme-songa cabaret girl. · in 1940 that reached the standard of "The Pagan Love Song."
The nearest approaches to it were "Falling in Love Again," from Blue Angel;" "The Love Waltz," from the filmu of the same name; and the theomatic waltz air from "The Immortal Vagabond," which Intler I regard as the best of the year. These are all German tunes.
If I had to choose the most at- tractive song in 1930 films, irres- pective of thematic values, I think I should pick "It Happened in Monterey," sung by John Boles in "The King of Jazz.”
What Spanish atmosphere there may be in the production finally disappears in a boisterous burlesque of the conventional serenade.
One of the students is even made to say: "I'll be right with you. fellers!" which would sound all right on the campus, but is some- thing less than appropriate in Castilian setting.
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Nevertheless, there is a pleasing disingenuousness about "In Gay Madrid." Mr. Novarro, being of Spanish stock, looks his part and acts it with an air of distinction,
Mabel Wayne, who wrote and though he is not absolved from a composed "It Happened in suspicion of "guying" it. Monterey," is also the composer of "Ramona" and "Ragamuffin Romeo." She told an Interviewer that she
was the "laventor of the syncopated
waltz," and she sold "Monterey" to the "King of Jazz" producer by ringing him up from New York on the transcontinental telephone and playing the song to him over the wire.
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The pubile has tired of the more vapid type of musical film, though the most popular dance number of the moment, I am told, is "I'm Dancing with Tears in my Eyes, for the Girl in my Arms isn't You.”
There, in fifteen words, is the essential secret of "what the public wants."
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See Paris First. Sophistication, according to Euro- pean standards, iudicates a know ledge of things in general, but ac cording to Hollywood standards it seems to indicate a general know- ledge of Europe.
The fact that Its notions of Europe are mainly wrong does not upset Hollywood's theory of sophistication.
The argument is excellently illas trated in a would-be-smart talkie called "Sin Takes a Holiday," on view at the Capitol.
This presents the beautiful Con- stance Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Kenneth McKenna, and others, in a drama based, on the fact that a divorce lawyer is himself ensnared by a divorce-seeking woman.
In order to prevent her capturing him he marries his pecretary, on condition that the secretary, who
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"The Vagabond King," which heads this week's Hat of general re- leases, sots out, to be a personal triumph for Dennis King, in the role which he made famous on the stage.
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